Oliver feels more than a little miffed that the villagers don’t seem to realize or don’t care that he was going anyway. In true fairy tale fashion, Oliver is alone since his mother has left to help with family. But with his village in the midst of a drought, Oliver knows he needs to go and try to find rain. Young twelve year old Oliver is the only mage in his village and when he was training, his ancient mentor was a bit addled and sometimes forgot to impart the really useful stuff. So yes that beginning began at a leisurely pace. Yes, it does have ghuls and ghosts and (very minor) mages plus a talking armadillo but it got off to a teensy bit of a slow start. I saw this new novella for sale and since it sounded a little Halloween-y, I decided to try it instead. Unfortunately, he was all they had.Ī while ago Sirius wrote a review of your book “Bryony and Roses,” which sounded interesting (though I’ll admit I haven’t read it yet). The armadillo had about wet himself laughing. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental leave the circle to get you a tissue, pat you comfortingly, and then disappear in a puff of magic. He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander.

His familiar reminded him of this several times a day. Jayne B- Reviews / Book Reviews Ghost / juvenile / mages / Magic / novella Comments Off on REVIEW: Minor Mage by T.

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